Passive Income Blog: Create Passive Income Online

I have long thought that when you buy a domain or the web address of your site, it already comes with the features that are needed to get a site up and running. When my friend planned to set up her own food and travel site, the first thing that she did was buy a domain.  Without any background in website building, she was lost as to how to proceed. I could easily picture myself in the same situation because I also don’t have in-depth knowledge in website creation. So today, I’m sharing with you bits and pieces of information that I got from NPC on domains and hosting in the hope of giving you a simple outline when choosing your domain and hosting scheme.

Choosing your domain is crucial because it greatly affects how google and other search engines will give you traffic. Here are NPC’s  4 main guidelines when choosing your domain:

1.    Make sure that your domain will reflect what your website is. In short, do not buy www.makeupsecrets.com if your niche is baking.
2.    Never settle for anything less ...

Now, this is the coolest part of the entire process because we will be able to determine if our niche has plenty of moneywords. In other words, this is when we’ll know if it’s a GO or if it’s a big NO.

Analyzing the Results:

What you will see after the entire process is done is an excel file that’s color coded containing all the data from the different criteria as follows: keywords, global monthly searches, competing pages, competing pages rank, average PR, average PR rank, PR rating, OCI (overall commercial intent), OCI rating, estimated CPC, and total ranking traffic (estimate).

Pay close attention to the values right below the commercial intent or OCI criteria because

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I can’t stop gushing about NPC’s Moneyword Matrix Software because it has really streamlined the process of deriving your moneywords instead of calculating it on your own. When I viewed the tutorials on using the manual process, I was completely lost. Did I tell you that I am allergic to anything that’s math-related? Okay, that may be an exaggeration but yeah, my brain seems to automatically switch to rejection mode each time I encounter formulas and other problem solving equations.

But the good news is that NPC has an amazing downloadable software that will analyze your keywords using different criteria. By far, this is the coolest tool that I found at NPC and I will explain further if you read along.

Using NPC’s Moneyword Matrix Keyword Tool

When I started the tutorials on getting the keywords automatically through NPC’s MoneyWord Keyword Tool, I could not believe that all you will ever need in getting your moneywords is contained in just one software. So let’s go about the process now and use

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My laptop died recently and to be very honest, it was the longest time in my life that I felt so disconnected from the world. I have heavily relied on the internet in getting information – from directions to recipes, business ideas, and restaurant reviews. It’s like my most complete and up to date resource book to everyday life so when I didn’t have a working computer for weeks, I felt really crippled.

A big chunk of revenues that come from google and from all the other search engines come from the traffic that so many people give them just because they are reliable sources of valuable information. The tutorials that I watched today focused generally in building the right content for your site. I have long believed that a well-researched article can help boost traffic but NPC’s tutorials taught me that creating content for your site goes beyond just a well-written article.

How Search Engines Work:

Google actually ranks site on a per webpage basis so to be up on the first page of Google, you need to have ...

In the videos that I watched today, I was introduced to a website where vendors meet affiliates and it’s called clickbank (clickbank.com). If you have been trying to earn money from the internet, you should get on clickbank because it is where many internet marketers and business minded people get ideas and commissions from.

Understanding Clickbank

It’s like Ebay where a lot of goods are sold but the difference is that the products that are up for grabs at clickbank are all digital. Another distinction is that clickbank allows people to earn commissions from products sold. To illustrate it more clearly, you will never find electronic gadgets or diet pills at clickbank because it never sells those. What it has instead are hundreds and hundreds of informative materials related to practically any “hot” topic out there. So if you have a hoplink (a link that will lead the visitor to the product) and the visitor decides to buy that product, you get your commission. Aside from offering commissions, clickbank is a treasure trove of in demand market ideas --  if you just know how to use it to your advantage.

Clickbank + SEO Quake+ Google Adwords = Wise Financial Decisions

I have always thought that you can never closely predict how many visits you can get in your chosen niche or even calculate possible income for that matter. But what NPC teaches is a strategy that

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Now, let’s tackle Step 5 of NPC’s Market Profile Strategy. For this step, we need to determine the market size of our niche through keyword analysis. If you are familiar with the Google Adwords keyword tool, this process is easy. All you have to do is to enter your keyword and sort the results in descending order.

Take note of the value in terms of global monthly search volume that your keyword gets. You also need to take into account the top 10 keywords and their corresponding global monthly search volume. With the needed data already collected, we can now proceed to the next step which is search engine landscape.

Step 6 – At last!

For the last step of the NPC’s market analysis, we need to ...

So now, we’re on to step 4 or otherwise called as Google Adwords Competitive Research. This is the simplest step because the NPC Market profile tool asks us just two questions. The first question is whether there are affiliates or vendors who pay google just to advertise information products on your specific niche.

To know the answer,you need to go to google and type in your root keyword. You will easily spot paid results because they

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I’m actually a fan of forums because it is where I get a lot of information from people interacting and sharing valuable information. I learned from doing online marketing before that you can actually attract visitors to your site by being active in forums that are related to your niche. But NPC’s Market Profile Strategy also teaches us to use forums as a tool in determining the profitability of a niche. It's called forum analysis.

The first step is to go to google and find whether there are forums related to your niche. So if your niche is koi breeding, you can just type in koi breeding forums. Make sure that you use only your keyword and just add the word forum to narrow down the results. If there are forums related to you target niche, check them out whether they are indeed forums because some domains can be misleading.

Visit those forums and check out if the forums are active. It’s also good to note the number of members, topics, posts and more importantly the number of active users. When you go to the bottom part of the any forum,

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The second step of NPC's Market Profile Strategy is to use clickbank. You need to go to the website and click on marketplace. You then need to enter your keyword and click on find products so you can determine the number of direct competitors in your niche.

Take note of the top 3 products and save their URL’s along with their corresponding gravity. From the previous videos that I watched, I learned that gravity is the number of distinct affiliates who earned a commission selling a particular product. Once these details are entered and saved into the NPC Market Profile System, it will compare the results with the collected data from the other tools.

If you don’t have the NPC’s software, analyze the data that you can find from ...

It’s been more than a week since I have been watching the tutorials at Niche Profit Classroom and to be really honest with you, I feel that I am fixated on the topics that are related to finding keywords and good niches because majority of the strategies that are used in finding a competitive niches are new to me. I feel like I’m learning an entirely new language!

But even if I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed, I tackled the videos on market profiling or in short sizing up your competition. With the system at NPC, you really don’t have to look into lots of tools and websites so that you can get the information that you want because they already have software called a Market Profiler. It basically focuses on 6 avenues of market analysis using websites that many people visit on any given day. Since I don’t want to give you a very long post, I am going to split it in parts so this post won’t be an eyesore!

So, let’s go ahead and tackle the first step by the use of ...